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Windows 7: Network card non-responsive when computer is woken up

Hey everyone,
Been awhile...
So i have a perplexing issue i cannot seem to concor. My mother recently bought a dell inspiron 3531 and it had windows 8. She hates it and so do i, so we bought her a windows 7 key and she is on her way, or so we thought. I installed windows 7 ultimate, clean install, on her laptop. Installed all the drivers, ran windows update, did the whole 9 yards. One issue remains though and it is ruining this laptop for her (she can be picky at times)...
Whenever I close the lid on the laptop, it goes to sleep. When i wake the laptop up, the wireless network has a red X on it, saying no connections are available. When i try to run troubleshooter, it tells me to turn on the switch for the wireless card (there isn't one on her laptop). I use the function key to try and turn it on and it has no response. They only way to get it working again is to do a restart of the laptop. I have done all the stuff mentioned above. I have also tried to mess with the power options, but i dont know if i am missing something. Any and all hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

So originally i had enabled these in the BIOS setup. When i went to go use them though, they would not work. I had to go do something, and left the computer alone long enough for the display to shut off. When i woke the display up, i tried the function keys again just for S&G. When i did this, they worked, and the network function key solved the issue. I don't know how or why it worked, but it has been working for ~10 sleep/wake-up cycles now.

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